I'm considering buying a reasonably high spec laptop, any suggestions where any good deals are on at the moment? Looking for something with i3/i5 core Good graphics card 4gb RAM 500gb-1tb HDD Blu Ray 15"-17" Screen Decentish battery life any help appreciated Budget: I'm not looking to pay above £1000
Also caught my interest: http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Sams....26_GHz_-_17.3_TFT_NP-R780-JS05UK/version.asp
I doubt if many people will be online at 3ish in the morning XD In any case, give Dell's refurb store a look... I think there are a couple of nice laptops on Ebuyer as well
wasnt planning for help/replies just tonight, whenever people can reply is fine not buying it in the next week or anything
Sony your paying hell of a lot for the name. I've not had a laptop in a couple of years now, but I always used to find Dell was the best value for money. Back in the day I had a Dell XPS M1710 and it was great, but that range appears to have fallen off the face of the earth
Intel® Core™ i7-620M (2.66Ghz, 4 Thread, turbo boost up to 3.33 GHz, 4MB cache) Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English Microsoft® Works 9.0 / English LCD 17.3” High Definition+ (1600x900) LED with TL 4096MB 1067MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048] 500GB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 Graphics Card DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD) Primary 6-cell 56 WHr Lithium Ion battery Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g) 2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera £939 from Dell You can have an i5 540m in place of the i7 and save yourself a further £140
What he said blow's the socks off that Sony at only a hundred quid more! Also what Dell range is that? I was struggling to find one that good
Sony actually offer higher spec than the New Dell Studio for less, well depending on what you want from the laptop of course, particularly handy if you want 1080p screen and blueray. http://www.laskys.com/computing/laptops_and_pdas/laptops/sony_vpcec1s1e_bj.html £850 and you can get quidco. Specs Whilst they do both have 5650 I do believe the dell is a slightly faster config but I was more interested in high res screen for work and blueray playback. Sony has rubbish battery life compared to Dell though, sothing like 2.5hrs vs 4hrs.
http://www.laskys.com/computing/laptops_and_pdas/laptops/sony_vpceb1z0e_b_cek.html Nice shout on laskys, tempted to go for the above model ^ which seems to be the same specs as the one you posted but 15" screen instead which is fine as I'll be putting it on my monitor anyway. I assume it'll run Modern warfare 2/L4D2/crysis relatively well?
Found this deal at DELL: intel® Core™ i5-540M (2.53Ghz, 4 Thread, turbo boost up to 3.06 GHz, 3MB cache) Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English Memory 8192MB 1066MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096] Keyboard Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard Video Card 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 Graphics Card Hard Drive 1TB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Dual Hard Drive (2x 500GB) Blu Ray Rom/Reader Wireless Networking Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g) Primary Battery Primary 6-cell 56 WHr Lithium Ion battery LCD 17.3 High Definition+ (1600x900) LED with TL Backlit keyboard £944 Good deal?
Nope thats got the 5470, I have that too, it's not much cop at gaming, 1080p screen its great though, it'll play those things but not in real high quality, not that the 5650 is amazing either mind you. Nice table of laptop graphics performance on this site. http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5470.23698.0.html
I bought a Sony Vaio VPCCW2Z1E second hand recently and it plays Dirt2 at native res and with every option on, bar AA peaks at about 25fps. The GT330M was actually vastly underclocked from the speed it should run at but a little tinkering brought it back to spec. Apparently, most overclock very well. Very pleased with it, although the battery drains on its own and the vertical viewing angle isn't too hot. It runs very quiet and doesn't get uncomfortably hot. The chiclet keyboard is fab. I was originally after a 15-16" HD5650 laptop and Acer's offering looked to fit the bill perfectly (the product number is LX.PMB02.001) but there's no telling when they'll hit UK shores. It was due at the beginning of February and still isn't out yet.
Highly considering this one as my laptop: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/194800 unless anyone knows reasons why not?
Please remove the idea from your mind that you will be able to play Crysis on any laptop. I don't want you to get your hopes up
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewId=3211946 Mesh Edge DX can play Crysis with mediumish settings on a low resolution. Its playable just not as enjoyable as a high end desktop. I'm getting this laptop soon for WoW and CS:S. It will run CS:S like a charm as my desktop which is now 7 years old and has 1gig DDR ram and 245mb unnamed graphics card can run it smoothly. And WoW it will also run pretty smooth seeing how my desktop can with just a few settings at minimum. Also noting that laptop probally about 8x better than my desktop.
